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Rival have a unique reputation for producing content internationally.
No matter the territory, no matter the language, we have filmed and produced series all over the world.

We've sold our formats across the globe and, because we love them so much, we often produce them ourselves internationally too - from our pan-Arabic hit reality gameshow shot in the Jordanian desert to producing multi-camera factual entertainment series in the USA.

And because of our huge global experience, we've also been asked to produce other people's ideas too.

It really is a small world after all.

BAFTA AWARD WINNER 2000
SMTV/CDUK

ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD WINNER 2000
SMTV/CDUK

BAFTA AWARD WINNER 2000
Disney Channel Kids Awards

NEW YORK FESTIVAL FINALIST 2002
Junior Journo

NEW YORK FESTIVAL FINALIST 2002
Disney Channel Kids Awards

BAFTA AWARD WINNER 2003
Star Ticket Active

BAFTA AWARD NOMINEE 2004
Madabout

NEW YORK FESTIVAL FINALIST 2005
Disney Channel Kids Awards

PROMAX INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNER (GOLD) 1994
Autumn

BAFTA AWARD NOMINEE 2002
Diggit website

ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD NOMINEE 2004
Bus Life

PRIX JEUNESSE AWARD WINNER 2004
Bus Life

BAFTA AWARD NOMINEE 2004
Bus Life

NEW YORK FESTIVALS FINALIST 2005
Disney Channel Kids Awards

NEW YORK FESTIVAL GOLD AWARD WINNER 2005
Bus Life

NEW YORK FESTIVAL JURY GRAND PRIZE WINNER 2005
Bus Life

Rival Media is one of the UK's fastest growing independent production companies.

Renowned for innovative award-winning series, experts in international formats, and dedicated to the very best production values on screen.

Led by Howard Myers, former Creative Director and Head of Formats at Disney-ABC International Television, Rival Media launched to focus on Entertainment, Reality and Factual-Entertainment projects.

With over 20 years of award-winning television production expertise across a range of genres in scripted, entertainment, factual and children's, the team at Rival have combined their experience and skills to build an international content business.

Established in 2007, Rival Media has gained an excellent reputation for creativity and innovation from its London base.

While the UK broadcast and media market remains a consistent focus, Rival Media continues to build on a strong international presence.

Alongside the creation and development of brand new formats, a broad range of activities include both selling and buying non-scripted formats around the world, physical production in the UK, Europe, USA and Middle East in both English and non-English language, and the exploitation of intellectual property rights either directly or through strategic partnerships.

Opening up new markets and regions is the focus for the current growth of the company, alongside a consolidation of the existing client base and the development of new shows across all genres. Building on successful relationships in such diverse territories as the US (with Networks, Cable and local producers via William Morris Endeavor) and Europe, Rival Media will be creating further opportunities to expand into emerging territories.

The USP of Rival Media is stand-out content creation and production, unrestricted by geographic boundaries.

As a company, we're also keen to ensure that our working environment is always creative, totally passionate, exciting and fun.

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Managing Director
Rival Media

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+44 208 987 5450

Howard Myers is an award winning Director and Executive Producer with 25 years production and senior management experience in the television industry.

Howard began his professional television career as an editor of sports and music programmes for ESPN and MTV, winning an International PROMAX award for his work. He soon become a leading music video and documentary director in the UK and USA, while creating and producing new comedy shows for MTV Europe.

As a freelance producer in network television, he went on to develop and direct several successful children's television series and formats for BBC and ITV in the UK and for PBS in USA.

In 1996, Howard joined Walt Disney International as senior producer/director working across a diverse range of output for both Disney Channel and ITV. In 2000, he became Director of Production and Executive Producer, a role which encompassed supervision of over 1500 hours of production including live, factual, entertainment and scripted shows. During this time, he created and produced the multi award-winning comedy series, Bus Life (nominated for BAFTA and RTS awards, winner of Gold and Grand Jury prizes at New York Festival and Prix Jeunesse). As part of his senior management role at Disney, he led the restructure of the European production divisions.

In 2005, Howard joined ABC Television, to head up the international formats business of Buena Vista International. As Creative Director Executive Producer he supervised both the commercial exploitation, international creative development and physical production of a variety of programme genres from ABC Television, ABC-Family, Soapnet and Buena Vista, in territories including the UK, Asia, Russia and Europe including Emmy award-winning The Amazing Race, the reality series Extreme Makeover and ABC Television sitcoms, Home Improvement, Golden Girls, Hope Faith and According to Jim. Brand new shows included Muppets TV (TF1 France), the reality series Kicked Out (ABC Family, USA) and elimination format I Wanna Be A Soapstar (ABC USA). Responsible for legal business affairs, sales and strategy across the format division internationally, he was also creative adviser to the Latin American local adaption and production of US scripted hit Desperate Housewives.

Howard spends his time away from the office perfecting his magic skills, scuba diving and getting injured as a karate black belt, while fretting why he's the only person in the world to have bought a Blackberry Playbook.

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Rival Media's formats have travelled the seven seas - and are currently on-air in over 35 countries.

The Rival Team have worked on some of the world's most successful formats - from The Amazing Race to The Bachelor, Big Brother to Extreme Makeover.
Having run the international format divisions for the world's two largest studios - ABC/Disney and Warner Bros., we truly are the format kings.